On Jan. 12, 1972, the KGB began massively arresting Ukrainian “Shistdesyatnyky” (Sixtiers). Nineteen people were arrested in Lviv and Kyiv. Among them – Vasyl Stus, Ivan Svitlychny, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Iryna Kalynets, Stefaniya Shabatura, Yevhen Sverstiuk, Leonid Pliushch, and others. Radio Liberty presents some unique photographs from the personal archives of the 1972 Vertep members. The Vertep was organized by Olena Antoniv, doctor, activist and wife of Vyacheslav Chornovil.
RFE/RL: The tragic 1972 Vertep in Lviv (PHOTOS)
Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus. Photograph from the poet's file after his first arrest in 1972. The dissident died at age 47 in 1985 after years of imprisonment in a Soviet labor camp in Perm, Russia.
